West Coast Squatting

I have a big meeting at PlxxxCo this week, which caused me to have to fly to Oakland California and rent a car and drive to corporate HQ in the Silicon Valley. I am dining as I write this on overpriced room service food (panini is a stupid word that just means crunchy bland sandwich bread) and a beer from the minibar. Blogging may be pretty light this week as I’m not due back until the weekend. If you are a regular reader, feel free to check out my archives. Lots of good stuff in there! Or feel free to visit the fine blogs featured in my Blogroll.

Here’s a pretty good post courtesy of Poppy that is right up my alley.  Its the eight most annoying types of people that you find at a Starbucks.

I would like to add myself as the number Nine type.  I go to Starbucks quite often because many of my friends love their overpriced coffee, and my wife likes their chai.  But whenever I go there, I always order a large Diet Coke and then argue with the Barista about how stupid they are to sell crappy Jones Soda but refuse to sell me a mainstream diet soda that is the number one selling soft drink nationwide, and if they only sold Diet Coke, their sales would be much better because they could attract non coffee drinkers.  And I always leave without a coffee, declaring loudly that the Baskin Robins next door will sell me a Diet Coke, and they will avoid giving me attitude about it!  And then I savor the heavy sighs and dirty looks the other patrons give me, all the while my wife pinches me and harshly whispers through gritted teeth, “Remember the talk we had about last week about you giving Starbucks employees a hard time!”